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Lebanon Bomb Kills Six UN Soldiers
Suicide attack piques terrorism worries; Fatah al-Islam suspected
By Peter Fearon
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Posted Jun 25, 07 4:46 AM CDT
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A car bomb killed six members of a Spanish UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon yesterday, in the first attack in a year on peacekeepers there. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing near Khiyam, but observers suspect Fatah al-Islam, the same al-Qaeda-spawned Sunni group that battled Lebanon at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp last month.
The group had previously accused UN forces of aiding the Lebanese army in its five-week siege of the camp, a charge UN forces have denied. Peacekeepers haven't been killed in Lebanon since last summer's war with Israel, when four observers died in an airstrike in Khiyam.